Also participating in the round table were Jim Featherstone, the former general manager of the Los Angeles Emergency Management Department, Joumana Silyan-Saba, a senior policy analyst for the Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, Salam Al-Marayati, the president and co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and Brie Loskota, the executive director for the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California.